Board of Directors

Sam Somech is one of the leading experts on middleware messaging technologies. An experienced and successful entrepreneur, he has an extensive track record transforming new technologies into profitable new businesses – from initial concepts to development and commercialization. Sam was the president, CTO and co-founder of Level 8 (NASD: LVEL), as well as founder and CEO of Data Voice Systems, where he developed the concept for the first transactional messaging product, which was the foundation of IBM MQSeries. Sam received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, an M.Sc. in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA from Baruch College.

Bruce Golden joined Accel Partners in 1997 and primarily focuses on investments in enterprise software and internet companies, with a particular interest in data management, analytic software, next-generation SaaS and Open Source software companies. Bruce currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at several private and public companies, including comScore (SCOR), Qliktech, and Responsys. Some of the investments that Bruce has been responsible for at Accel include: Ajuba Solutions (acquired by Interwoven, Inc.), eCommerce Industries Inc. (acquired by Insight Venture Partners), Exchange.com (acquired by Amazon.com), Itemfield (acquired by Informatica), Offermatica (acquired by Omniture), and SupportSoft (SPRT).Prior to joining Accel, Bruce held executive positions at Illustra Information Technologies, Informix Software, and Sun Microsystems.Bruce holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Columbia University.

Elisheva has been a Partner with Vertex Venture Capital since February of 2001. Ms. Yakobovich is an investment professional with over 18 years experience in heading various public and private investment activities. Ms. Yakobovich has in-depth familiarity with foreign and domestic capital and money markets and with private equity investments as well as technological skills and a knowledge of the software industry. Prior to joining Vertex Venture Capital she worked at Bank HaPoalim Ltd. for 12 years, Israel's largest bank, where she held various positions including Head of Portfolio Management Team and Director of Research and Private Equity at Gmulot, a multi-billion dollar provident fund management company owned by Bank HaPoalim. Ms. Yakobovich received an M.A in Economics and Business Administration and a B.A in Economics and Mathematics and held several tutorial positions at the School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Moshe Bar is a general partner of Atlantic Capital Partners. Previously, he was a co-founder of Qumranet, sold to Red Hat. He previously co-founded software company XenSource which was sold to Citrix. Moshe has frequently acted as a private angel investor in leading high- tech companies. He is the author of several text books in computer science and also taught computer science at Tel Aviv University. Before entering the high‐tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously a board member/advisor of Hyper9 (sold to Solarwinds), of Qlayer (sold to Sun MIcrosystems) and of Zimory. Moshe is at this time a board member/advisor of Correlsense, GreenSQL, Zooppa, H-Farm, Splunk, Librato, and Neebula. He is an avid runner, and photographer.

Mr. de Paauw has been active in the Israeli and international investment market from 1996 in a variety of capacities. From February 2011 he is the CEO of ProSeed Venture Capital Fund Ltd (traded in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange) and also a consultant to Ratio Oil Exploration Ltd. Prior to joining ProSeed Mr. de Paauw was Joint CEO at Eshet Group Ltd, a private investment company. Between the years 2000-2007 Mr. de Paauw worked in Harel Insurance Group - one of the leading institutional investors in Israel, first as a Senior Investment Banker, than as the CEO of Harel Securities & Underwriting Ltd and between 2003-2007 as the Head of Private Equity, Real Estate & Infrastructure sectors. Mr. de Paauw is a member of the Second Authority for Television & Radio Council and Chairman of the Tourism Fellowship of Modiin Regional Council. Mr. de Paauw earned a Bachelor and a Master's degrees in Law (LL.B, LL.M) and a Master's degree in Business Administration (M.B.A), all from Bar Ilan university (Israel) and with Magna Cum Laude. He is Certified as an attorney in Israel (member of The Israel Bar) and as an Investment Portfolios Manager by Israel Securities Authority.

Oren founded Correlsense with Lanir Shacham, Correlsense CTO, in 2005 and has over 16 years of experience in the software industry. In 1997 he founded Internative Solutions, a provider of knowledge management solutions for contact centers, which was sold in 2004. Prior to founding Internative Solutions, he was an IT expert for Vocaltec Communications. Earlier, while serving in the Army, he developed knowledge management systems. Oren studied Economics and Computer Science at Bar Ilan University. He founded Correlsense with the idea that in order to solve, rather than detect, the IT bottleneck problem, data collected from the IT infrastructure must be correlated and analyzed into meaningful context. In his free time, Oren likes to go scuba diving.

Lanir brings over 17 years of experience in the software industry. Prior to founding Correlsense, he was an IT Architect for the IBM Global Technology Unit, consulting on technical assessments, technical integration roadmaps, pre-sales and promotion of IBM middleware in the Israeli high tech community. Earlier in his career, he served as a Chief Architect and R&D manager for Indocs Online, a start-up that developed a unique service for the pre-print industry. Before this, he led the development of knowledge management systems. Lanir is a graduate of the MAMRAM IDF computer academy and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Physics from Bar Ilan University. He has lectured on entrepreneurship at the Hebrew University. When not flying for business, he likes to surf and participate in triathlons.

Jacob Ukelson is a well respected technology figure, with a proven track record of excellence and leadership. Previously, Ukelson was CTO of Itemfield (acquired by Informatica), as well as CTO and Business Development Manager for IBM's Global Technology Unit. Prior to these roles, he was a department general manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Lab in New York, managing a group of 130 cross-disciplinary researchers focused on creating the next generation of the Internet at the middleware and application level. Ukelson received his Doctorate of Science in computer science from the Technion University in Israel. His work has been published in several leading journals and is a well known speaker at conferences worldwide. In 1997 Jacob received the Alexander C. Williams Ergonomics and Human Factors Award from the Human Factors Society.

Ariel served as Chief Technology Officer at BMC software Inc. At BMC, Ariel was behind the creation of BMC’s Business Service Management (BSM) strategy and behind the creation of BSM enabling technologies like the Atrium Integration infrastructure. BSM was adopted by all major systems management vendors and is now a leading industry trend. Prior to joining BMC, Ariel served in a number of key roles including VP of R&D and CTO of New Dimension Software, later acquired by BMC for over $650M.

Prof. Itamar Procaccia, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of chaos research, has served as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute since 1989. The aim of his research is to describe and quantify complex natural phenomena. The recipient of many prizes, he was three times appointed a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He was appointed the UNESCO Professor in Science and Sustainable Development for Latin America for the period 1995–2000. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France, and NORDITA in Denmark. Prof. Itamar Procaccia holds the Barbara and Morris L. Levinson Chair in Chemical Physics.